Contents Features

The Amityville Horror - We join director Andrew Douglas and the cast on the set of the cursed mansion

Wild Country - We meet director Craig Strachan on the set of his new werewolf film

The Machinist - Director Brad Anderson talks about his chilling new movie

The Phantom Strikes Back - More incarnations of the Phantom of the Opera - Robert Englund, Michael Crawford, Julian Sands - and the new face behind the mask, Gerard Butler, plus a Brazilian TV movie and the Phantom on Ice!

The Devil's Rejects - Genre favourite Sid (House of 1,000 Corpses) Haig grants a rare interview to talk about his film work with Quentin Tarantino on this 1,000 Corpses sequel

2005: A Year of Horrors - Day of the Dead 2 and Return of the Living Dead Parts 4 & 5 are among the delights for zombie-lovers coming this year!

Alone in the Dark - A sneak peak at Uwe Boll's new film based on the best-selling game, starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff


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Opinion - Kim Newman continues his look at the porn career of Count Dracula and delves into the world of Dracula Exotica!

The Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby chooses another classic moment from Horror film history and looks at Lon Chaney's chilling performance in the 1927 silent movie The Unknown

The Pitt of Horror - Ingrid Pitt encounters a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own as she looks at Ealing Films's classic Dead of Night

Poster - We celebrate the coming Year of Horror with its heroes and villains

With 10 pages of reviews

- Books - Clive Barker's lavish Fantasy Abarat, Blood Price, The Ice Maiden and Ramsey Campbell's anthology Gathering the Bones

- TV - The concluding parts of Sky's Supernatural series Hex

- Films - The Forgotten, The Exorcist: The Beginning and The Phantom of The Opera

- DVD - A Tale of Two Sisters, The 4400 and some new scares on DVD!

And more...

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Wes Craven's Cursed - Editor Patrick Lussier and FX guru Greg Nicotero talk about the film's troubled genesis

Constantine - Keanu Reeves tells us about taking on the mantle of the world-weary demon-hunter John Constantine

Alone in the Dark - Director Uwe Boll and star Christian Slater discuss 2005's first Horror blockbuster

Boogeyman - We interview actor Barry Watson who stars as a troubled young hero in this new Horror thriller from Evil Dead creators Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert

Ring 2 - Special Effects co-ordinator Peter Chesney interviewed

Pete Walker - With a DVD box set of his most famous Horror films from the 1970s being released, we meet legendary director Pete Walker

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Opinion - Kim Newman continues his examination of the shady world of Vampire porn

The Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby raises an eyebrow at the indescribable 1970 Horror I Drink Your Blood

The Pitt of Horror - Ingrid Pitt tells us all about her role as a Soothsaying Sybil in the new film Labyrinth

Poster - Keanu Reeves is John Constantine in our Hellblazing new poster

With 8 pages of reviews

- Books - including Out of his Mind and The Mask Behind the Face

- Films - The less-than-terrifying White Noise and the nerve-jangling new British film set in the London Underground, Creep

- DVD - Alien vs Predator, The Grudge, Tigon Tales of Terror, and two Oriental stories, Shikoku and Inugami

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House of Wax - Actors Chad Michael Murray and Elisha Cuthbert in an exclusive preview of the shocks in store in this remake

Pete Walker - We meet the Godfather of British Horror, director of such exploitation gems as House of Whipcord and Frightmare

Simon Baker - The star of Hideo Nakata's The Ring 2 and George Romero's new zombie chiller Land of the Dead talks about his work

Studies in Terror - More about Tony Tenser and Tigon Films, showcasing the DVD release of some of Tenser's classics, including A Study in Terror

The Return of Quatermass - We meet the creators of the new live television adaptation of the BBC's pioneering serial

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Opinion - Kim Newman continues to his in-depth examination of the shady world of Horror pornography...

The Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby chooses a classic moment from Horror history, in Dead and Buried

The Pitt of Horror - Ingrid Pitt looks at the remake game and finds some Horror sequels coming up a little short!

Poster - Chad Michael Murray and Elisha Cuthbert face terror in the House of Wax

With 8 pages of reviews

- Books - including Mark Gatiss's The Vesuvius Club and My Death by Lisa Tuttle

- Films - including Keanu Reeves as Constantine, Robert De Niro in Hide and Seek, The Darkness, The Machinist and Hideo Nakata's The Ring 2

- DVD - HP Lovecraft and Hammer rarities, plus The Hillside Strangler and Park Chan-wook's chilling Oldboy

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George A Romero's Land of the Dead - After two sequels and a break of nearly 20 years, director George A Romero delivers the fourth chapter in his zombie saga. Shivers was exclusively on set to meet the director and watch the zombie mayhem

Asia Argento, Daughter of Darkness - The daughter of director Dario Argento, plays a starring role as a zombie-killer in Land of the Dead, and spoke to Shivers on set!

House of Wax - More pictures from the new version of the classic Horror,plus a look back at the previous incarnations of this film shocker!

The Return of Doctor Who - We examine how terror has returned to teatime on UK TV with the reappearance of the BBC's Timeless traveller, Doctor Who

The Skeleton Key - A first peek at the new voodoo-themed chiller set in New Orleans, starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands and John Hurt

Dark Water - The Japanese original was directed by The Ring's Hideo Nakata - we preview the new US remake

Do You Like Hitchcock? - Alan Jones reviews Dario Argento's recent homage to Alfred Hitchcock for Italian TV

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Opinion - Kim Newman looks at Abby, the 1974 Blaxploitation version of The Exorcist

The Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby chooses a classic scare from Horror movie history, this issue Operazione Paura

The Pitt of Horror - Actress and Horror expert Ingrid Pitt examines some scary fairy tales and their metamorphosis into strange and sinister movies

Poster - The zombies walk in George A Romero's Land of the Dead

With 8 pages of reviews

- TV - A look at the recent TV revival of The Quatermass Experiment

- Films - including Cursed, The Last Horror Movie, Boogeyman and the new remake of The Amityville Horror

- DVD - The Curse of the Crimson Altar, The Devil's Men, Bad Boy Bubby, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, Exorcist: The Beginning

And more...

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The Cave - We visit the spectacular Bucharest set of the thrilling new Horror movie and meet director Bruce Hunt

Dominion: The Exorcist Prequel - Director Paul Schrader began work on a prequel to The Exorcist but was dropped by the producers and the film was re-shot. Now, however, his version is being released. We spoke to Schrader before the storm...

George A Romero's Land of the Dead - We continue our in-depth interview with zombiemeister George A Romero on the set of his new film

The Skeleton Key - We meet director Iain Softley on the location of his spooky new movie and also talk to star Kate Hudson

The Descent - More thoughts from director Neil Marshall, responsible for the hit werewolf movie Dog Soldiers

Tobe Hooper - The acclaimed director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Toolbox Muders talks to us about his new projects!

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Opinion - Writer Kim Newman looks at the new season of Doctor Who and finds there's life in the old Time Lord yet!

The Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby chooses another classic chilling moment from Horror history - this issue, the Cat creeps in The Cat and the Canary from 1927

The Pitt of Horror - Actress and Horror expert Ingrid Pitt continues her examination of scary fairy tales with a look at the cautionary tales of Dr Heinrich Hoffmann in Struwwelpeter

Poster - Eddie Cibrian faces the monster in the shadows in The Cave

With

7 pages of reviews, including

- Books - New Horror and Fantasy literature including Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's MirrorMask, Tim Lebbon's Desolation and Richard Laymon's The Glory Bus

- Films - Recent cinemas releases including The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The Descent, Batman Begins and Seed of Chucky

- DVD - including a new TV version of Frankenstein, the recent Horror movies Boogeyman and Hide and Seek, Angel compilations and a re-release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

And more...

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Masters of Horror - Director Mick Garris talks about his new US TV Horror anthology that unites great genre directors including John Carpenter, John Landis, George Romero, Dario Argento

Hex Set Visit - We meet new stars Laura Pyper and Joseph Beattie, and discover the Special Effects secrets!

The Cave - Stars Rick Ravanello and Daniel Dae Kim on the subterranean shocker

The Devil's Rejects - Director Rob Zombie about his new Horror extravaganza

FrightFest DVD - Irish zombie movie Dead Meat launches a scary new DVD label

Wolf Creek - Greg McLean, director of the no-holds-barred Horror film they're calling ' the Outback Texas Chain Saw Massacre' , talks to Shivers!

The Corpse Bride - A photo preview of Tim Burton's new animated feature

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Opinion - From Arthur Holmwood to Henry Clerval, Kim Newman considers the worst role in Horror movies!

The Fright of Your Life - Another classic Horror moment from Horror history - this month, Peter Cushing in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

The Pitt of Horror - Ingrid Pitt visits Dublin to celebrate Bram Stoker in a new museum dedicated to the writer, then jets off to New York to star in a new movie with Tom Savini!

Poster - She's a ghoul after the editor's own heart... the star of The Corpse Bride

With 9 pages of reviews
- Books - New Horror writing Hotel Midnight and Another War plus a reprint of Stephen Gallagher's classic Valley of Lights

- Films - A bumper crop of recent cinema releases including The Devil's Rejects, Dark Water, Spirit Trap and Skeleton Key, plus Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and War of the Worlds

- DVD - Recent DVD releases including Seed of Chucky, The Machinist, Chronicles of Riddick, The Twilight Zone, Scooby-Doo and Dario Argento's Trauma

And more...

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Top 50 Frighteners - To celebrate the spooky season, we present the Shivers countdown of the Greats of the Horror world!

The Fog On-Set Interview - Selma Blair and Tom Welling talk about their roles in the remake of John Carpenter's classic movie

Masters of Horror Directors' Forum - Directors John Landis, Stuart Gordon, Joe Dante and Mick Garris discuss their work on the new TV Horror anthology series

FrightFest 2005 Review - A look at some of the Horrors on offer at London's Premier Horror film festival, including Dead Meat, Evil Aliens, Contagium and more, plus a guest appearance by zombie maestro George Romero!

David Cronenberg - The legendary director talks about his new projects - including A History of Violence

30 Horror DVDs You Must Own! - All the DVDs we think you'll need for a frightfully good Horror movie collection


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Opinion - Kim Newman remembers writers John Brosnan and Tom Hutchinson, who died recently

The Fright of Your Life - We choose a classic moment from Horror history. This month, a look back at Humphrey Bogart's only Horror role in The Return of Dr X

The Pitt of Horror - Ingrid Pitt considers sex in the cinema and Hollywood's famous Hays code that censored films in the 1930s

Poster - Celebrating four classic frighteners of the cinema screen!

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